writing

A public place for unpolished technical writing. (by jevko)

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  • Jevko: a minimal general-purpose syntax
    30 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2022
    I had the same idea. Simple enough, but still. Brackets are simpler to formalize and implement and not harder to explain.

    > They also put some thought into designing a query language for their rose-tree-like data model, which might be adaptable to Jevko — though they label only nodes, and Jevko labels both nodes (with suffixes) and arcs (with prefixes).

    Yes, that might be interesting to look at, thanks for pointing it out. I have thought about this and came up with some ideas, but haven't decided on anything. I was thinking more along the lines of having the path DSL be simply implemented on top of Jevko, not as a completely separate grammar.

    > Maybe that's the subtitle for Jevko? "A minimal Unicode syntax for ordered trees with labeled nodes and labeled arcs." If that's the intended semantics it would be pretty easy to whip up a diagram in Dot to illustrate it.

    It's a nice description, but I think a little to detailed and technical to fit into a tagline. Maybe a little explanatory article with the diagram included. Would probably look something like this:

    https://github.com/jevko/writing/blob/main/2022-01-10-jevko-...

    Although I'd gladly see your take on it. ;)

    30 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2022
    This is correct.

    Every time I've written or otherwise dealt with JSON/XML/etc. I wished I was dealing with something simpler, so I created it. If I had Jevko as a full-fledged alternative to JSON or XML, supported by tools, etc., I'd pick Jevko in a heartbeat. I like minimalism. Some people like it too, so perhaps Jevko can serve them well. There are many good reasons.

    > But is seems trivial to implement on very low-level, older, less bloated, or less powerful systems.

    Indeed, this is THE feature and a realistic application. I hope!

    For an unrealistic vision that I sketched out some time ago see:

    https://github.com/jevko/writing/blob/main/2022-01-13-vision...

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